The number of players impacting performance greately.

[Unfocused]

Specs:

PIV2,8Ghz
Palit 6800GS 128MB
1,5GB RAM
Fortron 400W
Intel D845PESV mobo

I noticed that my fps don't differ much, regardless of my settings. In a combat-free environment (but with stuff on the screen, buildings etc. not just water) on a 32 player server, on all medium, I will get 25-35 fps, with all low giving me maybe 10fps more and all high (textures, terrain - medium) 5 fps less.

However, in combat situations and/or lots of people running/driving around, those fps often go down to 20 and below in both all medium and all high (textures, terrain - medium) settings (I'm not sure about low, but in all medium except lightning, dynamic stuff on low, fps go down to 20 and less as well).

I've just finished playing on a server and was getting my usual crap performance, but when the map changed and many people left (leaving about 10 people on the server), my fps on all high (textures, terrain - medium), were at a steady 35-45. I could achieve that on low settings on a full 32 player server.

It's not even a matter of how many people are on the screen. FPS go down even if there are many people on the server, but they are not in view (they do not need to be rendered). 64 player servers are unplayable for me.

I'll also add, that with my 6800GS, I have only a slight improvement in fps, compared to the fps I was getting with a 9600pro, even though my 3DMark05 score is more than doubled (about 1800 then, about 4100 now [with OC]).

Maybe it's not my GPU doing crap then? Any ideas what could I do to improve? I defragmented, reinstalled, tried the game on a drive with a fresh WinXP install (well, the 2142 demo actually, which runs worse than BF2 BTW), so it doesn't look like it's a case of a software slowdown.

[Corkum]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

its the fact that you only have 128mb of graphical ram, and only 1.5gb of system. all of those textures are stored on your ram, and the less you have the lower your texture settings are going to have to be to make the game playable. you could play the game with decent settings if you only upgraded your graphics card to something a bit beefier.

i used to run BF2 perfect on a p4 oc @ 2.8m 1gb corsair 3200, and a 9800pro, and it played on everything high save for textures and aa. so im sure it wouldnt take much to get your rig playing bf2 at an acceptable level. on a side note, it used to take FOREVER to load maps. I gave my old rig to a friend and he still plays BF2 on it daily.

[Munk_Madness]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

same problem here its not the graphical ram as i have an 6800gs 512mb and having problems, ive quit playing bf2 until either a new patch for bf2 or from Nvidia comes out hoping it will fix the problem

[Unfocused]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

its the fact that you only have 128mb of graphical ram, and only 1.5gb of system. all of those textures are stored on your ram, and the less you have the lower your texture settings are going to have to be to make the game playable. you could play the game with decent settings if you only upgraded your graphics card to something a bit beefier.

i used to run BF2 perfect on a p4 oc @ 2.8m 1gb corsair 3200, and a 9800pro, and it played on everything high save for textures and aa. so im sure it wouldnt take much to get your rig playing bf2 at an acceptable level. on a side note, it used to take FOREVER to load maps. I gave my old rig to a friend and he still plays BF2 on it daily.

The strange thing is, my friend with a Barton 3200+, 1,5GB RAM and the same video card (exact model), gets about 15fps more on all high (except textures and geometry), than I do on all medium.

[Unfocused]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

Any more ideas, now that you know my friend is doing much better on a similar setup?

And why does changing my settings not have much impact on the fps, while the number of players has a great impact? What can this be related with?

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

My personal theory is that BF2 gets very CPU-intensive with lots of players, so that's what I think may be slowing you down.

I think I'll try out some tests soon.

[Munk_Madness]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

got BF2 working good now, replaced the power supply and processor but dont go spending money on anything try cleaning out your fans and heatsinks ive heard it can help

[Unfocused]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

got BF2 working good now, replaced the power supply and processor but dont go spending money on anything try cleaning out your fans and heatsinks ive heard it can help

What processor did you have before and what do you have now?

[Munk_Madness]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

before i had an 3.2GHZ pent 4 prescott now i have 3.4GHZ northwood extreme edition

[Unfocused]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

I would have never thought such small upgrade would be worth it.

As for cleaning the dust out of the PC etc., can that actually make any noticeable difference?

[Munk_Madness]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

i heard it can and the upgrade is bigger than you thinkjust cos its an extra .2 clock speed dont mean a thing the northwood 2.8 would prob run better than the one i used to have

[Liam.]

Re: The number of players impacting performance greately.

My personal theory is that BF2 gets very CPU-intensive with lots of players, so that's what I think may be slowing you down.

I think I'll try out some tests soon.

Go to - Multiplayer - Create Local or whatever...any map...any settings...as you are the only one in the game it runs like a dream. So you are absolutely right.